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     macs, unless accompanied by the French, de Rame- 
     
     zay decided to send the Micmacs alone under M. de 
     
     Montesson (enseigne en pied) and five or six cadets. 
     
     De Montesson returned to Beaubassin on July 23 
     
     with a number of prisoners, and Brisson of Isle Saint 
     
     Jean, who offered his services as pilot to Port La 
     
     Joye. He reported success, having killed or made 
     
     prisoners almost forty men, whom he surprised on 
     
     the banks of the Northeast River, and lost only one 
     
     Micmac killed, and another wounded. If the Indians 
     
     had been more amenable to discipline they would 
     
     have captured a goelette with another forty men, as 
     
     it was up the river trading with the settlers; but 
     
     after the first triumph the Indians took to looting 
     
     and the English discovermg their danger had re- 
     
     turned to the shelter of the ships in the harbor. He 
     
     reported that the English were there only for provi- 
     
     sions and were paying generously for them. 
     
    

    
     Among his prisoners were two of the habitans who 
     
     had been given as hostages to the English for the 
     
     good behavior of the others. These, together with the 
     
     English prisoners and Brisson, whom he suspected 
     
     of being a “bad Frenchman,” de Ramezay shipped 
     
     off to Quebec. 
     
    

    
     In September some deputies came from Isle Saint 
     
     Jean to ask de Ramezay for provisions and muni- 
     
     tions and for advice as to how they should conduct 
     
     themselves under the circumstances. He distributed 
     
    
   
   
    
     powder and shot among them and left them to defend 
     
     themselves." 
     
    
   
   
    
     ® Beaujeu’s Journal, C11 A, Vol. 878.